Rodrigo González, (December 25, 1950–September 19, 1985) better known as Rockdrigo or El profeta del nopal ("the nopal prophet"), was a Mexican musician and songwriter. He founded the Movimiento Rupestre ("Cave Movement"), a voice-and-guitar folk music scene that strongly influenced Mexican rock. His early death in the 1985 Mexico City earthquake gave him legendary status among listeners of the Mexican rock. Rodriguez was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas and studied at the Félix de Jesús Rougier school in Tampico, where he was a good student. He always liked psychology, he even studied by a brief time at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa before moving to Mexico City in 1977 with the desire to make music. He arrived to the capital and began playing in bars and cafes. At first, he survived by singing covers in the streets of the city "in the English style." Then he developed an interest in "seeing

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